Customer Reviews

Age of Empires II: Gold

5 star:		(41)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Pros: Good, balanced gameplay, every weapon has a counter, every counter has a weapon. Strategy pays off, tactics too. Good, intuitive controls, a fairly steep learning curve but fun all the way. Totally addicted. Much better gameplay than AoE3. Great level editor and level scripting tools just rock!

Cons: Getting hard to find. Can't back up media, had to repurchase when CD went bad. A few more options would be nice - setting default unit stance at the barracks, and displaying/saving/re-entering the RNG seed to create the level would be a nice touch.

If you like battles and are creative, then you will love this game. The graphics get an A+ and the game is so fun that it will hook you for hours. You get to make cities, armies, and more, but at the same time you have to be cautious with your rations, you only have so much stone and food. But, you can easily just harvest more supplies, making it so that your city never stops growing. And yes, there are exiting battles, conquests and explorations, too. If your parents want games that are educational, guess what, THE AGE OF EMPIRES II has tons of historical facts about the middle ages. In the long run, all these things put together make this a very cooool game.

I've played this game for weeks with a good friend. We like it, but it lags, and has frozen up while play against the computer.
We are both on cable modems, and using the TCP/IP connection.
It's similar to Warcraft 2, and Starcraft, but with more variables.

The package recieved was not like the one in the pic. the company MicroSoft seems to have sold the rights to produce and distribute this product to another company...althought the game plays the same as the original. it was recieved as promised in good shape and in good time.

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The Age of Kings (AoK) along with its expansion pack, AoK:TC (The Conquerors--which we now call "AoC" when both are installed) is a superb game for either "Multiplayers" who play on-line or "Singleplayers" who don't. If a game which has a historical aspect to it which resides in the 1,000 year realm of ancient history stated has appeal for you (which isn't all 'hoked_up' with fantasy creatures), you cannot go wrong with purchasing the "Gold pack".

Yes, in order to play AoC which epitomizes the development of the game, you need to install from both disks, first installing AoK, then removing it and installing the AoK:TC disk which you leave in the tray (it must be in there when you want to play). You can then go online to either Microsoft's or Ensemble Studios' websites for the game, Age of Kings: The Conquerors, and download the 1.0c patch which fixes any minor 'bugs' discovered and rectifies a few civilization "balancing issues" which have come up. Thus buying the Gold pack is a real good deal for anyone getting the game now as it cost me more than twice as much to have bought AoK & then AoK:TC, as they came out.

There are so many ways to play this game that it almost boggles the mind, but preferred game modes are "Conquest" followed by "Deathmatch" in popularity amongst "Agers". If you really want to learn to play the game using the various "strategies" for the 18 civilizations which Agers have developed, it's a good idea to join a good Ager gaming clan such as Tonto Clan, which caters to both Multi- and Singleplayers. You can find Tonto Clan by doing a websearch for "tontoclan1", or look for "Tonto Empire". The clan celebrates its 2nd birthday the 13th of March, 2002, so you know they aren't fly-by-nighters. And that's a good place to ask any questions one might have about the game.

A final thought: "Real Time Strategy" is a bit of a misnomer, oxymoron, in computer games as "twitch-and-bang" on the keyboard doesn't really give a person time to think, only act and react. But an aspect of AoC that makes it come closer to being enabled as a true strategy and tactics game is that you have the "Pause key" which when playing Singleplayer you can use to pause the game in progress in order to "think on it" a bit and decide what next you want to do. This brings yet another dimension to the game that most don't have.

There are other RTS 'historically based war games' which have come out since "Age", but it is surprising how many people will try them and then just keep coming back.... to AoC. And, for my money the next RTS slated to come along that might be as good or possibly better isn't projected to hit the market until Spring (if then) of 2003.

The best game in the world it is so much fun

This game is very good for one who like small stratagy games, I personaly have this game and if you buy this and want to play agaist people on the internet you will have to download a patch but it is worth it. This game has many interesting civilizations to play and with a scenario editer make your own scenario and show it off on the internet. If you are a true pc gamer you would buy this only if you like the kind of games that you make an army to protect, and another to attack and there is only on downfall, there never seems to be enough resources and the realistic detail is down from other games, like a mining camp on the ground in the middle of the field... uh huh, right.. Well thats my Reveiw.

Seriously, you will love this game. It's not too hard for beginners because there are 5 difficulties and a fun tutorial. You manage your empire from every perspective whether it is diplomacy, economy, military, etc. Go buy this game.

This game is ruining my life. It took me 3 weeks to find the time to install the game, but once I did I have averaging 5-6 hours of sleep per night. I've never smoked crack, but this must be the gaming equivelant. I am contimplating taking some vacation time from work so I can devote the necessary time to perfect some of my empire building strategies.

The game started out with a nifty learing scenario to get you started. It was quite thorough and I was up and running in about 20 minutes. From there, you get experience and figure out how to dominate (cooepration doesn't seem to work as well) other players and take over the world.

After describing this game to my brother, he insisted I need therapy. While I may indeed need therapy--that doesn't take away from this awesome game.